March 7 – 30, 2023

P L A T E AU R E S I D U E

Sub Persona, 2019

HD video, single screen, stereo, subtitled, 20:25 min

Curated by Paola Paleari

The research project Sub Persona focuses on the implications and ethics of forest management.

For millennia, elaborate inter-species relationships and energy flows have allowed forest ecosystems to adapt successfully to climate shifts and natural cataclysms. However, human impact – from the first settlements to contemporary industrialized deforestation – has interrupted this balance and decreased the extent, quality, and condition of the forest’s self-regulatory mechanisms.

In recent years, research on virgin forest remnants in central Europe has been crucial for understanding these mechanisms, which has helped improve the handling of managed forests.

Sub Persona emphasizes the importance of developing modern and sustainable management methods that consider the forest’s multiple functions on the environmental, economic, recreational, and cultural levels. Through a combination of documentary techniques and sensory perception, the video offers insight into the complexity of one of the planet’s oldest ecosystems and encourages a reflection on our shared responsibility towards its survival.

CREDITS

The film features Tomaž Hartman from the Slovenian Forest Service, forest logger Nevenka Gregorčič, SiDG Slovenian State Forests, d. o. o., the Saw Mill from Loški Potok and forester/ hunter Brane Poje.

Production and video: P L A T E AU R E S I D U E
Music: LIFECUTTER
Sound editing: Simon Kavšek
With the support of: Mestna občina Ljubljana, Zavod Projekt Atol, Slovenski državni gozdovi, d.o.o., KID KIBLA

BIO

Behind P L A T E AU R E S I D U E is the award-winning duo Aljaž Celarc and Eva Pavlič Seifert. They work with landscape ecology and new media to raise public awareness around the impact of human intervention on nature. Their immersive video installations give voice to unheard stories, including those coming from natural formations such as rocks, air, and other aggregates of matter, which they reorganize into unusual compositions and new media systems.
The duo lives and works in the Slovene village of Novi Kot, close to the Goteniški Snežnik forest reserve.

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PLATEAURESIDUE, Sub Persona, 2019, HD video, single screen, 16:9, stereo, subtitled, 20 min